Day and Time: ONGOING Tuesdays 8:45pm-10:30pm via Zoom

Age: Young Adult

Group Description: Jason Cerro, Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), is facilitating a virtual psychoeducation group module on calming individuals with anxiety and building strategies to overcome depression.  Anxiety is a mental state of excessive worry, irrational thinking, negative self talk, rumination, indecisiveness, nervousness, and/or fear or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.  Common precipitants include but are not limited to: feeling overwhelmed with schoolwork, social interactions with peers and/or teachers, social media pressures and transitions within families.  Depression includes feelings of loneliness, emptiness, isolation, and lack of motivation.  This module will address common conditions, such as: Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Social Anxiety, Phobias, Panic Attacks, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Dysthymic Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), and Bipolar Disorder.   

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Individuals will learn how the body responds to stress.  Anxiety produces a physiological response, such as: racing heart and/or mind, intrusive thoughts, pit in the stomach, nausea, dizziness and chest tightening.  Depression responses may include: a lack of pleasure in things previously enjoyed, oversleeping, lack of motivation, and/or difficulty making decisions.  In addition, they will learn how to regulate (self-soothe) their symptoms to feel better and move about their day more productively.  Also, individuals will learn to reframe irrational and nonproductive thinking into rational, useful thoughts.  Interventions will be taken from various models, which include: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) and Schema Therapy.  Participating individuals will be welcomed into ice breaker activities and non-judgemental group discussions.  Individuals participating in this group may feel an increase in confidence, a higher self-esteem, better self-worth and an increase in assertive communication skills.